Toy animal



J. LEvlNl: TOY ANIMAL.

APPLICATION FILED N0V.'I4I 1919.

Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

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A TTORNE IS UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE. i'

. JACOB LEVINE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY ANIMAL.

To @ZZ lw from it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAooB LEVINE, a citizen of Russia, and a resident ofNew York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county oi Kings and State of NewYork, have invented a new and improved Toy Animal, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to toys, and more particularly to toy animals.The invention relates specifically to audible tone producing devicesrelated with toy animals.

it is an object or my invention to produce an interesting and amusingtoy animal for children, which isprovided with audible tone producingelements for adding to the pleasure and amusement of its use bychildren. It is a further purpose to provide a toy animal having a toneproducing device such as a whistle incorporated in the hand, paw, or armof the top animal so the toy will respond whentaken by the hand, or whenthe toy animalshand is grasped by the child in playing with same.

It is a further object to provide a simple, and inexpensive form ofaudible tone producing device which may be effectively combined with atoy animal such as a Teddy Bear, for making the toy more amusing tousers, and for making the toy more profitable and salable in the market.

With the above principal objects and others in view, the invention hasrelation to the toy animal disclosure presented in this specification,set forth in the appended claim, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein,

Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of a Teddy Bear, showing thebear with hands or paws in each of which is placed an audible toneproducing device such as a whistle. Fig. 2 illustrates a cross sectionalview of the Teddy Bears hand or paw, said section being taken on theline 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig.y 3 illustrates a plan view of a whistle, the same having beenremoved from the paw of the toy animal, and Fig. 4, illustrates a sideelevation of the whistle device shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows a crosssectional longitudinal view of a whistling reed employed' as an elementof the whistle shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

A toyT constructed in accordance with the principles ot my inventionmakes use of any miniature toy animal design such as a Teddy Bear, ordog. A whistling device or any Specification of Letters atent. PatentedNOV, 16, 1920,

Application led November 14, 1919. 'y

Serial No. 338,034.

practical form of audible tone producing element is incorporated in thestructure of the toy animal, and preferably inclosed in the hand or pawoi' the toy animal in order that the toy7 animal may emit joyful, re-

sponsive tones when playfully approached and his hand shaken by a child.

ln presenting a more detailed description of my invention I refer to theldrawings and form and stutled with any suitable packing material 9..The hand or paw is inished leather, piece 10 at the end of the paw bysewing or otherwise joining the leather piece 10 to the fabric armmaterial 8. The endv portion of the arm 7 is left open or not stuiedwith packing material 9 in order to form a receptacle in which theaudible tone producing device is inserted.

A whistling device is constructed of a pair oi opposed disk members 14and 15. A resilient spring 16, preferably coil spring, is confinedbetween the disk members 14 and 15 and acts to keep the disk members inoutwardly expanded and spaced relation one from the other. Each end ofthe spring 16 may be fixed to each disk 14 and 15.

A whistling reed 17 is iixed in one ot the disks. This reed ispreferably beveled olli'k on each end as shown in the detail structureFig. 5, and one end of the reed 17 is fitted with a vibrating vane 18.The vane 18 is inserted in a small slot or pushed down into the reedmaterial with the upper free end thereof, bent over the reed opening andadapted to rapidly vibrate when air passes through the reed. In ordertoeiectively protect the outer end of the delicate reed 17, a protectivecasing 19 is fixed to the outer face of the disk 15 by gluing itythereto or otherwise securing same. The casing 19 is fixed over theouter end of the reed 17 and prevents the sharp end of the reed fromcontacting or rubbing against the arm material or fabric portion 8 ofthe toy animals arm.

The disks 14 and 15 comprising the whistle are covered with a suitableflexible retaining material such as cloth or paper 20. The

voii' by inserting a vfabric, or preferably flexible material 20 mustnecessarily be air- A lto form a closed air space or air diaphragmY Thematerial` within the whistling device. 2O is lapped over the outer edgesof the' perimeter ot' the disks 14 and 15 and cemented or otherwisesecurely fixed thereto.

hand or paw of the Teddy Bear. 1n Fig. 1 the whistle 15 is shown indotted Alinesin one of the animals paws, while the other paw thereof isshown to be installed with the whistle, said paw being' broken away toeX- pose a portion ofthe whistlein `full lines. The whistle 15 is placedin the paw and the leather cover 10 securely sewed to the fabricmaterial 8,

By pressing the paw of the animal the closed airdiaphragm comprising thewhistle parts is compressed. VThis action on the part ofthe whistle setsup an air pressure within the closed drum which Vforces a stream of airat high velocity through the reed passage 17, and the consequent action.is a rapid vibration of the vane 18. This vibration produces Vawhistling sound similar to any ordinary forml of; whistle. `The devicerepeats the whistling action upon each compression and release'ofthewhistling device Vor air drum.

The invention is substantial in structure, comparatively inexpensive toproduce, and adds to theattractiveness, utility andsalability of toyanimals. y

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and ldesire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

Vln a toy animal having paws provided y" with a `flexible covering, thecombination with The whistle as described is inserted in the part o1 thecovering onjsaid paws, of a whistling device held in place by thecovering of Veach paw, and operable by a manipulation of the coveringover the respective paws, each o said whistling-devices comprising apair of disks arranged substantially parallel to the covering thereo'l,a flexible substantially annular connecting member connecting the edgesof said disks so as to producewan airtight inclosure, a spring :tornormally holding said disks separated, a tubular member extendingthrough one of said disks, a sounding reed carried by said tubularmemberV adjacent one end, and a looped member forming a guard over theend of the tubular member extending from said disk, said looped memberbeing positioned to A be engaged by part or". the covering of therespective paws when saidr Ycovering is compressed for causing the disksto move together, said movement causing` an impulse of the air throughsaid disks 'through the tubular member past the reed and therebyresulting in a sound proportioned in length to the degree of movement ofthe disk.

JACOB Levine.-

